Shipping-tag.



G. G. GARMAN.

SHIPPING TAG.

APPLICATION rum) MAR. 2a, 1908.

91 1,206, I Patented Feb. 2, 1909.

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GERHARDUS GLOWES GARMAN, OF ST; JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA.

SHIPPING-TAG.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 2, 1909.

Application filed March 26, 1908. Serial No. 423,4A0.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, GERHARDUS CLowns CARMAN, a cltizen of Canada, residing at St. John, in the Province of New Brunsw1ck, Canada, have invented new and useful Improvements 1n Shipping-Tags, of which the following is a specification.

when the same are read in connection with the drawings, accompanying and forming part of this speclficatlon, 1n wh1ch:

Figure 1 is a view showing one side of the tag constituting the bestpractical embodiment. of my invention of which I am aware. Fig. 2 is a View showing the opposite side of the tag, and Fig. 3 is a detail section taken in the plane indicated by the line 33 of Fig. 2, looking in the direction of the arrows.

Similar letters designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings, referring to which:

A is the body of my novel tag which is made of tough paper or other material suitable to the purpose and B is the pin fastener of the tag. 7

As best'shown in Figs. 2 and 8, the body A is provided with an end portion a, and the said end portion is bent back on the major portion of the body and connected thereto in a strong manner through the medium of adhesive or other suitable means. In this way is formed at one end of the body A a barrel 6, and in the said barrel is journaled the inner bar 0 of the before mentioned pin fastener B which, in addition to the said inner bar, comprises an end bar 0i disposed at a right angle to the inner bar, a fastening pin e which extends from the end bar and rests nearly parallel to the inner bar 0, and a guard pin f which extends from the oppoe site end of the inner bar 0, with reference to the end bar cl, and is extended at an acutemay be readily forced into a bale or analogousdevice to which the tag is to be attached, and that when the pin 0 is relieved of pressure, the guard pin f will serve to engage the bale or other device in a reverse direction to the pin 0 and by so doing will preclude casual withdrawal of pin e and the consequent disconnection of the fastener B from the bale or the like. It will also be manifest in this connection that during the insertion of the fastening pin 6 in a bale or the like, the guard pin f will give toward the inner bar 0 of the fastener and hence will not interfere with the pin 6 being pushed home. lVhen, however, the pin 6 has been inserted to the extent desired and there is any tendency for said pin to draw out, the guard pin f will operate in the manner and for the purpose before set forth.

It will be noted by reference to Fig. 2 that the barrel 1) of the body A receives the inner bar cof the pin fastener B and rests substantially parallel to the pin 6, and extends from the end bar d to the guard pin f. By virtue of this specific relative arrangement of parts it will be manifest that the body A may be used to advantage as a handle or hand grasp through the medium of which thepin 6 of the pin fastener B may be readily inserted into the bale or other article to which the tag is to be at-- tached; also, that it is expedient to use the body A as a handle incidental to working the pin 6 and the pin fastener B, as a whole,

out of engagement-with the bale or other article. It will be further manifest that the specific connection stated between the body A and the pin fastener B is a strong and durable one, and that while the bar 0 of the pin fastener is free to turn on its axis in the barrel 7), any other movement of the pin fastener, relative to the body, is precluded.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is: l

The herein described shipping tag consisting essentially of a pin fastener, formed of a single piece of material and having an inner, straight bar, of circular form in crosssection, an end bar extending at a right angle from one end of the inner-bar, a fastening pin extending in a straight line from the said end bar and disposed substantially parallel to the inner bar, and a guard pin extending at an acute angle from the opposite end of the inner bar and in a reverse direction to the fastening pin and arranged In testimony whereof I have hereunto set With its polnt opposed to the side of said my hand in presence of two subscribing \vitl0 fastening pin, in combination With a body nesses. havin at one end a strai ht barrel which b 22 1 q T 'w v 1 receives the lnner straight bar of the pin GERHMDU fastener and extends from the end bar to \vltnesses:

the guard pin of said pin fastener, as and l V11. B. M. Bnx'rnn, for the purpose set forth.

HARRY l SAUNDERS. 

